Often, as I am sharing my message of Reel Genuine Music, the term "Low-Fi" comes up. As in "Low-Fidelity." As in "not faithful to reality." I don't blame anyone for thinking of this term. I have even used it to describe our recordings. But is it accurate? We have undergone a revolution, and we now live in an age where almost everyone has access to technology that can record high definition audio and do "studio tricks" that would make Sgt. Pepper era Beatles blush. Does that make them Hi-Fi and tape Low-Fi? I don't think so.
Crystal clear audio products are good, but if the term Hi-fidelity is to be taken literally, there is absolutely nothing Hi-Fi about one person playing 15 instruments on a song that occupied 32 tracks and countless retakes/punch-ins and extensive ripple splices. That is really cool stuff, and it is wonderfully amazing that such consumer grade technology is available to the masses. But it is anything but true to life.
I'll admit, I have to do a minimal amount of editing once we have recorded the performances. My editing is limited to cutting out extensive pauses and major tape defects that sound really annoying. The process that we use to record our guests pretty well eliminates the possibility of fixing performance mistakes, or even recording mistakes. You will hear tape defects, wrong notes, and some overdrive that results from me not watching the meters closely enough. Does this make our product Low-Fi? I don't think so.
There is absolutely NO overdubbing or multitracking so you can be sure that if you hear our guest performing a song on our show, you could hear them perform that same song if they were sitting right in front of you.
That is Hi-Fidelity.
What you are hearing is Reel. Genuine. Music.
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